Warranty Question

Uncle is out today, and he's the qualified one to answer that. I think last time this was asked he said something like:

Warranty lasts the life of the Seller (Uncle Bill);)


keith
 
I used to but shady characters made me have to quit. Guys would trade knives and get an HI khukuri and then write me and say they wanted a refund because they didn't like the knife. A couple would purposely damage the knife and then ask for a refund rather than replacement. It's hard to operate with honor when you are dealing with the dishonorable.
 
Sun

I can't imagine one of the HI K's ever "breaking". I know it has happened on very rare occassions but it is not likely. And who knows what the owner was really doing with it.

I take mine out and give them a good workout on some tough locust wood. If there are no waves or cracks (I've never had any, btw) the knife will last 100 years as Unnca Bill says.

I wouldn't worry about warranty claims too much. :D
 
What happens, is at Dasein ( Religious holiday for a month around October, November - correct me where I'm wrong, Unc. ) the Kamis get in a rush to get things done so there'll be stock to carry the business through the holiday and not run out before they come back.Then they get a little too hurried and temper parts that should be left soft.
 
The summer is just a bit longer down here in the south than where a bunch of you folks live. Of my working khuks, which is every thing I have. There has been times that I had work for them for several days in a row. I traded off which one I used some times at noon. And other times the heavier ones got a work out all day long, Sugar Pine green and dry, Red Cedar green and dry, Mesquite the same. Oak is hard no matter whether it is green or dry. I have had no blade failures, waves in the blades, edge folds that I have heard about. Just the opposite has been true with some of my HI khuks. The Kamis did one heck of a job on some of mine. They just got sharper with use. There were no strikes in sand or stones, just wood. The WWII that went through two layers of leather to get to my thumb between the wrist and that first big knuckle, I didn't think was that sharp by the end of the day it was just terrible.
Another feature of Kumars work. The only one taht I haven't worked real hard is my 20" kobra. At that it does what I bought it for in the first place. I haven't seen all the different brands of knives for sale. But, I think I would put HI knives up against just about any knife going and be pretty sure of the knife. :) :D
 
Originally posted by Semper Fi
Sun

I can't imagine one of the HI K's ever "breaking". I know it has happened on very rare occassions but it is not likely. And who knows what the owner was really doing with it.

I take mine out and give them a good workout on some tough locust wood. If there are no waves or cracks (I've never had any, btw) the knife will last 100 years as Unnca Bill says.

I wouldn't worry about warranty claims too much. :D
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I don't worry about the warranty - if I have one.

It is insurance, plain an simple. You buy it, but you don't expect to use it - nice to have though.

I just wanted to know if I would be covered if I bought a knife in the aftermarket. And the answer is no.

Anyway, I am just getting the facts - not passing any judgements on whether or not my Khuk (when I get one) is going to break.

Although, there is that thread about a bunch breaking..............but they seemed to have sniffed out and solved the problem.:D
 
There were a rash of failures - improperly hardened edges and two broken AK's, when the Maoist trouble heated up about 6 or 8 months back. There may be a few more out there that people haven't really used very hard, but nobody on the forum seems to have had any problems before or since.

If you beat it up a little doing hard work, and don't have a problem, you probably won't ever. The kamis know what they're doing, and I think it takes unusual circumstances to make them slip up.
 
Dasein always generates 4 to 6 failures. Extreme circumstances also will lead to a half dozen failures. I don't keep track but my educated guess is we might lose one in 500 to failure.
 
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